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Originally posted by mikesingh
Originally posted by Nookster
I don't know but I suspect it has something to do with your enhancement, because when I download the image from the esa website, I don't see anything like it.
Well, it wasn't my enhancement! It was Joseph Skipper's of Mars Anomaly Research. He's done a fairly good job of it by peeling off the layers to see what's under! I just complemented the effort!
You'd not find this stuff on any of the images from NASA or ESA who prefer the usual 'cover up' pics to be displayed publicly. This image could have been tampered by them before putting it into a public forum.
However, if you look carefully at this original ESA image, you'll notice strange squares/triangles/steps etc. All you've got to do is increase contrast and lower brightness in PS. Presto! You've got your 'city'!!
Cheers!
[edit on 21-8-2008 by mikesingh]
Originally posted by ArMaP
Considering that the whole are has that type of features, I think it is a terrain characteristic.
........................ I wonder if someone can provide pics of similar naturally formed geometric features on Earth?
Cheers!
..... as my health doest not permit me to make physically demanding work I can only go on that digging expedition as an observer, but don't worry, I don't like beer.
Originally posted by spikedmilk
As for Armap, I say we get a rocket and a shovel and take him on a digging party. I'll bring the beer!
I will probably resemble your avatar before catching that flight...
Originally posted by mikesingh
By the time he comes back he'll probably resemble my avatar!
Originally posted by Anonymous ATS
jpeg compression does not turn in the camera lens, as the Hale crater images do. If you go to the ESA site to download more than one photo, you will see the crater image taken at a different angle, and at different times. The "artifacts" have stayed motionless, following the contours of the crater floor, regardless of angle.
Jpeg compression is random and would appear so on two different prints. I have worked 20 years in desktop pre-press and have not seen anything of that degree in my photos.